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Haslingden Halo

The Glowing Halo provides spectacular climax to "superb" Lancashire Panopticons

Panopticon n. structure, space or device providing a comprehensive or panoramic view

'Halo', Pennine Lancashire's fourth and final Panopticon, has been launched after a spectacular event on Top o' Slate, overlooking the town of Haslingden in Rossendale. The event involved many local people and community groups and culminated in the inaugural lighting of 'Halo' against the night sky.

Halo

Designed by John Kennedy of LandLab, 'Halo' is an 18m-diameter steel lattice structure supported on a tripod five metres above the ground. The core is open at the top, framing views of the sky. The steelwork has a natural silver appearance, which will temper to matt as the galvanised finish weathers. A unique feature of this Panopticon is that it is lit after dark and glows a sky-blue colour, giving the effect of hovering above the town. The lighting, using low-energy LEDs and powered by an adjacent wind turbine, is designed to minimise light pollution and avoid any disruption to wildlife.

'Halo', positioned to be clearly visible from the M66 and A56 approach to Pennine Lancashire, is one of a small number of iconic artworks to have received funding from the Northern Way as part of its Welcome to the North programme – a unique scheme to install public artworks at key gateways across the North to enhance the image of the region, improve its quality of place and increase tourism and economic growth.

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